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📜 Environmental Protection Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2020

Assented toLABill 18216 April 2020

This bill amends the Environmental Protection Act 1986 to clarify the government's ability to impose taxes, fees, and levies related to environmental impact assessments and monitoring programs. It enables cost recovery for these activities by allowing regulations to prescribe and impose levies on monitored activities.

Impact

Businesses undertaking activities monitored under environmental programs will be affected, as they may be required to pay levies. This matters because it shifts the cost of environmental monitoring to those undertaking the activities, potentially impacting project costs and viability.

Key Changes

["Clarifies that regulations under section 48AA can impose a tax related to environmental impact assessment.", "Inserts Division 2A into Part VIIB to enable a levy for cost recovery of environmental monitoring programs.", "Defines 'monitored activity' as a prescribed activity with impacts monitored under an environmental program.", "Specifies who is liable to pay the levy: the licence holder or the person required to hold a licence."]